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Breaststroke is the slowest of the four official styles in competitive swimming.The fastest breaststrokers can swim about 1.70 meters (~5.6 feet) per second. It is sometimes the hardest to teach to rising swimmers after butterfly due to the importance of timing and the coordination required to move the legs properly.
Old English Backstroke : Lying on back, breaststroke legs and butterfly arms; Sidestroke: On the side, pull the water as if with a rope with arms going out and stopping in the middle while ensuring that the strokes are most hydrodynamic when moving towards the desired location, and pushing the most water when moving away from the location. In ...
The sidestroke is now universally acknowledged as the superior method and young swimmers do well to practice it accordingly. — H. Kenworthy (1846) [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Sidestroke evolved in ancient times from swimmers who discovered that it was painful to swim breaststroke with the head above the water. [ 2 ]
The combat side stroke is a relaxing and very efficient swim stroke that is an updated version of the traditional sidestroke. The CSS is a mix of sidestroke, front crawl, and breaststroke. The combat side stroke allows the swimmer to swim more efficiently and reduces the body's profile in the water to be less likely to be seen during combat ...
Butterfly Backstroke Breaststroke Front crawl. Medley swimming is a combination of four different swimming strokes (freestyle (usually front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay.
King had already qualified for her third games with a first-place finish in the 100-meter breaststroke on Monday, but had a chance to make history with the 200-meter race. A first- or second-place ...
The trudgen is a swimming stroke sometimes known as the racing stroke, or the East Indian stroke.It is named after the English swimmer John Trudgen (1852–1902) [1] and evolved out of sidestroke.
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